Them + Us: Special Edition

by Dennis Vogen

"Everyone remembers where they were when they landed, just like they remembered where they were on 9/11, which had happened only a decade earlier." A young woman named Kim discovers, through her television, that our world has been invaded by people from outer space. She blacks out, and when she wakes up, her parents have disappeared. She embarks on a road trip across the country with a kind stranger named Guy, kicking ass and humming tunes along the way. In 2013 and 2014, acclaimed writer Dennis Vogen published his first Them and Us , two punk rock sci-fi novellas that live and die on their humor, heart, violence, and wit (or lack thereof). In 2021, with this Special Edition collection, he revisits the epic with a razor-like clarity and vengeance. A story about growing up while facing your past; a story about finding a family while choosing your own; a story about love and truth and control and privilege and forgiveness and acceptance. And figuring it all out during an alien invasion. For mature audiences.

305 pages, Paperback

Published October 26, 2021

About the author

Dennis Vogen is a writer, artist, musician, and definitely not several squirrels in a human costume, who uses pop culture and his own work to talk too much about stuff we don't talk too much about, like addiction, sobriety, loss, grief, pain, anxiety, creativity, and hope.

He's been publishing since 2013, releasing over ten books in his first ten years. He's an active blogger and an overactive oversharer; unfortunate practitioner of radical empathy.

Creator of The Weirdos, Brushfire, Jojo, Cold World, Theia, Flip + Push, Them + Us, Time is a Solid State and more. Lives in Minnesota. Official website: dennisvogen.com